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0. W. LAURENCE GURTAIN POLE. No. 424, 10. Patented Apr. 1. 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

CHARLES \V. LAURENCE, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

CURTAIN-PO LE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 424,610, dated April 1,1896.

Application filed October 19, 1889- Serial No. 327,529. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. LAURENCE, of the city, county, and Stateof New York, a citizen of the United States, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Ourtain-Poles, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to improvements in the poles usually used forsupporting ourtains; and the object of my invention is to provide anattachment for wooden or metalcovered poles by which the same can befast ened between the jambs of a window or door without requiring anyfastening by means of screw or nails.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts anddetails, as will be fully set forth hereinafter, and finally pointed outin the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a longitudinal View of myimproved curtainpole, parts being broken out and others in section. Fig.2 is an inner end View of a screw-socket. the pole provided with thescrew-neck. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view of the end part ofthe pole, showing the cushion-disk.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The curtain-pole A is made of wood, in the usual manner, and may becovered with sheet metal or finished in any other suitable man ner. Oneend is placed int-o the sheet-metal socket B and rests against the outerend piece of the same. On the other end of the pole a flat ring 0 issecured, from which the externally-threaded neck D- projects. The socketE is provided on its outer end piece with an inwardly-proj ecting intern ally-screwthreaded neck E, into which the neck I) on the end of thepole is screwed, and the pole is applied in the following manner: Theneck D is screwed into the neck E a greater or less distance, one end ofthe pole is placed into the socket l3, and said socket placed againstthe wall. The pole is then held horizontally, and the socket E is heldso that it cannot be turned, and the pole is then turned on itslongitudinal axis, whereby the screw-neck D is screwed out of the neckE, and the pole is then lengthened.

As the pole is len thened the sockets ll and E are iressed Fig. 3 is aview of that end ofv against the jalnbs M and N of the window casin gwith sufficient force or pressure to hold the pole in place and tosupport the curtain on said pole. There is no necessity of making anyholes in the janib for screws or nails. If desired, the socket B may beprovided 011 its upper end with an annular recess M, for receiving thethicker part N of a rubber or leather or felt packing-ring O, which isplaced on the outer end of said socket and rested against thewindow-casing for the purpose of absolutely preventing the socket fromdefacing the casing.

A window-pole need not be of any special construction to adapt it to beused in the manner set forth, as the ring C, carrying the screw-neck D,can be secured on the end of any wooden pole. The pole can be removedjust as easily as it can be put up.

I am aware that it is not broadly new to use a screw for lengthening orshortening rods and poles, and I do not claim this, broadly.

llavi n g thus described myinvention, Iclaim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with a wooden curtain-pole, of aflatring fastened on one end of the same, an externallyscrew-threadedneck projecting from said ring, and a socket provided with anintcrnally-screw-threaded neck that. projects into the socket from theouter end piece of said socket, into which neck of the socket the neckon the end of the pole can be screwed, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with a curtain-pole, of a screw-neck secured to andprojecting from one end of the pole, a socket for receiving said end ofthe pole, which socket has an internally threaded neck projecting inwardfrom its outer end, and an annular recess in its outer end and acushion-ring placed on the outer end of the socket and having athickened inner part which is placed into the recess in the outer end ofthe socket, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES \V. LAURENCE.

Witnesses:

OSCAR F. GUNZ, J OHN A. STRALEY.

It is hereby certified that the name of the patenteein Letters PatentNo. 424,610, granted April 1, 1890, for an improvement in Curtain-Poles,was erroneously Written and printed Charles W. Laurence, Whereas saidname should have been Written and printed Charles W. Lmwence; and thatsaid Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that thesame may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed, countersigned, and sealed this 22d day of April, A. D. 1890.

CYRUS BUSSEY, Assistant Secretary of the Interior.

[SEAL] Oountersigned 0. E. MITCHELL,

Commissioner of Patents.

